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Descriptor English: Blood
Descriptor Spanish: Sangre
Descriptor sangre
Scope note: Líquido bombeado por el corazón a través de arterias, venas y capilares. Está formado por un líquido claro amarillento llamado plasma y por diversos tipos celulares con funciones distintas. La función más importante de la sangre es transportar oxígeno y nutrientes a las células y retirar el dióxido de carbono y otros productos de desecho para la detoxificación y eliminación. (Diccionario Mosby. 5a ed. Madrid: Harcourt España, 2000, p. 1121)
Descriptor Portuguese: Sangue
Descriptor French: Sang
Tree number(s): A12.207.152
A15.145
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001769
Scope note: The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (BLOOD VESSELS). Whole blood includes PLASMA and BLOOD CELLS.
Annotation: general only as a substance: prefer / blood with higher animals, substances & diseases: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.10; not for hemodynamics: Manual 23.28, 23.29; reinfusion = BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; venous blood: coordinate BLOOD + VEINS or specific vein but do not index here for routine blood samples; arterial blood: coordinate BLOOD + ARTERIES or specific artery but only if the arterial aspect is significant; "blood picture" = probably BLOOD CELLS or BLOOD CELL COUNT; "blood clot": physiol clot or clotting = BLOOD COAGULATION, pathologic clot or clotting = THROMBOSIS or EMBOLISM
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
VI virology
Entry Combination: analysis:Blood Chemical Analysis
cytology:Blood Cells
enzymology:Enzymes /blood
physiology:Blood Physiological Phenomena
chemistry:Blood Chemical Analysis
Consider Also: consider also terms at HEM-
Related: Hematopoiesis MeSH
Occult Blood MeSH
DeCS ID: 1794
Unique ID: D001769
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Blood - Preferred
Concept UI M0002669
Scope note The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (BLOOD VESSELS). Whole blood includes PLASMA and BLOOD CELLS.
Preferred term Blood



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